A YEAR AGO TODAY, Jan. 21, 2019, on the coldest day of the winter, natural gas was cut to thousands of people in Newport and Middletown. It was a crisis for lots of businesses, and many residents were forced from their homes, some not returning until service was restored a number of days later. For […]
Brian C. Jones
Brian C. Jones, a regular contributor to What’s Up Newp, is a retired Providence Journal reporter (35 years) and is the co-founder of the Rhode Island Library Report. Brian resides in Newport, Rhode Island.
Brian C. Jones: In anxious times, should a ‘nice day’ be welcomed – or feared?
THIS PAST SUNDAY, Rhode Island had the day off – a day off from winter and a lot more. Temperatures reached 66 in Newport, and, at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, where Rhode Island records are set, the 70-degree reading was an all-time January record. What’s more, a potential spoiler that had been forecast – […]